Dark souls 3 performance issues

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Nikola1123

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The game is being very choppy for me, one moment being at steady 60 fps to then dropping at 20. It doesn't really follow any patterns, an area can be smooth 60 one playthrough and be frame hell the next.

Sometimes the fps even drops to under 5 and then I need to wait several seconds before I can continue (this always happens in the main hub for instance)

It also doesn't seem to matter on what quality I play the game on as now when playing on low I get exactly the same results.

Any help is appreciated.
 
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James Mason
Is it only DS3 that does this? no other game?

Give the following a try, it's a basic step we have everyone go through for these types of issues and we should get it out of the way:

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe...
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Nikola1123

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I've been having these issues since the game came out (around 10 months ago) and updated my drivers several times so I don't think this is the issue.
 
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Nikola1123

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I did this as well a while back and the results were normal.

I can check again when I play but I don't think much will be different.
 
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Is it only DS3 that does this? no other game?

Give the following a try, it's a basic step we have everyone go through for these types of issues and we should get it out of the way:

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html
 
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